A sample of 20,000 stories from many chatbots, when using 5 prompts, "found that the same 11 words—names like Elias, Mara, and Elara, & occupations like lighthouse keeper, clockmaker, & librarian—appear in more than 88% of generated stories, w/little difference between models."
That is AI slop.
When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer.
His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news.
Who is he?
DE Riley
LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...
